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No nation ever rises higher than its women.
Nellie L. McClung
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War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.
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the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.
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Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.
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Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this matter of political entity and the end is not yet.
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Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?
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Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.
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Disturbers are never popular - nobody ever really loved an alarm clock in action, no matter how grateful he may have been afterwards for its kind services!
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Women who set a low value of themselves make life hard for all women.
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I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high.
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That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.
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By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.
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Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.
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it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.
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War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.
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I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said.
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Never underestimate the power of a woman.
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Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.
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It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.
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